SOFTWARE ENGINEERING UNIT – 1 MCQ

QUESTIONS
1. What is Software ?
A Set of computer programs, procedures and possibly is a collection of instructions that enable the user to

interact with a computer

B  A set of compiler instructions
C A mathematical formula
D Things which we can touch

2.  _________ is a piece of programming code which performs a well defined task.

A Computer Program
B Computer Software
C Both A & B
D None of the above

3. A person who writes a program for running the hardware of a computer is called?
A System designer
B Data processor
C Programmer
D System analyst

4. Which of the following is not a point of concern for Software engineering?

A Quality of Software

B Time taken to complete the software

C User Interface of the software

D Customer satisfaction

5. Which of the following software lifecycle model is able to manage all the risks that may appear while

software development?
A Spiral Waterfall model

B Iterative waterfall model

C Spiral model

D All of the above

6 Which of the following software lifecycle model deals with the incremental development of the software

through different versions of the software?

A Spiral model

B Classical waterfall model

C Iterative waterfall model

D None of the above

7. Which of these is incorrect ?

A  Software engineering belongs to Computer science
B Software engineering is a part of more general form of System Engineering
C Computer science belongs to Software engineering
D Software engineering is concerned with the practicalities of developing and delivering useful software

8. The fundamental notions of software engineering does not account for ?

A Software processes
B Software Security
C Software reuse
D Software Validation

9. What does RAD stand for?

A Rapid Application Document

B Rapid Application Development

C Relative Application Development

D None of the above

10. The major drawback of RAD model is __________.

A It requires highly skilled developers/designers.

B It necessitates customer feedbacks.

C It increases the component reusability.

D Both (a) & (c)

11. Which model can be selected if user is involved in all the phases of SDLC?
A  Waterfall Model
B Prototyping Model
C RAD Model
D both Prototyping Model & RAD Model

12. SDLC stands for

A Software Development Life Cycle
B System Development Life cycle
C Software Design Life Cycle
D System Design Life Cycle

13. What is the major drawback of using RAD Model?

A Highly specialized & skilled developers/designers are required
B Increases reusability of components
C Encourages customer/client feedback
D Increases reusability of components, Highly specialized & skilled developers/designers are required

14. Which one of the following is not a phase of Prototyping Model?

A Quick Design
B Coding
C Prototype Refinement
D Engineer Product

15. Which one of the following models is not suitable for accommodating any change?
A Build & Fix Model
B Prototyping Model
C RAD Model
D Waterfall Model

16. Which of these is true ?

A Generic products and customized products are types of software products
B  Generic products are produced by organization and sold to open market
C Customized products are commissioned by particular customer

D All of the mentioned

17. What are attributes of good software ?

A Software maintainability
B Software functionality
C Software development
D Software maintainability & functionality

18. Spiral Model has high reliability requirements.

A True
B  False

19. Choose the correct option from given below:

A Prototyping Model facilitates reusability of components
B RAD Model Model facilitates reusability of components
C Both RAD & Prototyping Model facilitates reusability of components
D None

20. One can choose Waterfall Model if the project development schedule is tight.
A True
B False

21. Software is considered to be collection of ____________.

A programming code
B associated libraries
C Documentations
D All of the above

22. The process of developing a software product using software engineering principles and methods is
referred to as____________.
A Software Engineering
B software Evolution
C System Models
D Software Models

23. Which one of the following is a functional requirement?

A Maintainability
B Portability
C  Business needs
D Reliability

24. Waterfall model is not suitable for:

A Small projects
B Complex projects
C Accommodating changes
D Maintenance Projects

25. The quality attributes can be calculated under which of the following measures?
A Observable
B Non observable
C All of the mentioned
D None of the mentioned

UNIT - 2
1 Which of the following is not a part of the Test Implementation and Execution Phase?
A Creating test suites from the test cases
B  Executing test cases either manually or by using test execution tools
C Comparing actual results
D Designing the Tests

2 Which of the following is the Characteristics of good software?

A Transitional
B Operational
C Maintenance
D All of the above

3. Which of the following is not a component in DFD?

A Entities
B Attributes
C Process
D Data Flow

4. What is level 2 in DFD means?

A Highest abstraction level DFD is known as Level 2.
B Level 2 DFD depicts basic modules in the system and flow of data among various

modules.
C Level 2 DFD shows how data flows inside the modules mentioned in Level 1.
D All of the above

5. A directed arc or line in DFD represents

A Data Store
B Data Process
C Data Flow
D All of the above

6 Which of the following is not an appraisal cost in SQA?

A inter-process inspection
B maintenance
C quality planning
D testing

7. What is not included in prevention costs?

A quality planning
B formal technical reviews
C test equipment
D equipment calibration and maintenance

8. Which requirements are the foundation from which quality is measured?

A Hardware
B Software
C Programmers
D None of the mentioned

9. Select which option is not true about SQA…?

A Audits and reviews to be performed by the team
B Amount of technical work to be performed
C Evaluations to be performed
D Documents that are produced by the SQA team.
10 Software quality assurance consists of which function of management.
A reporting functions
B auditing functions
C both and b
D all of the above

11. Select the people who identify the document and verifies the correctness of the software…
A Project manager
B SQA team
C Project team
D All of the mentioned

12. Select which one is not an  External failure costs?

A testing
B helpline support
C warranty work
D complaint resolution

13 Faults are found most cost-effectively in which test activity?

A design
B execution
C planning
D Check Exit criteria completion

14. CMM stands for

A Capability Management Module
B Conservative Maturity Model
C Capability Maturity Module
D Capability Maturity Model

15. According to ISO 9001, the causes of nonconforming product should be

A Deleted
B Eliminated
C  Identified
D eliminated and identified

16 ISO 9001 is not concerned with ____________ of quality records.

A Collection
B maintenance
C Verification
D dis-positioning

17. Which of the following is not a maturity level in CMM?

A Design
B Repeatable
C Managed
D  Optimizing

18 The entity relationship set is represented in E-R diagram as

A Double diamonds
B Undivided rectangles
C Dashed lines
D Diamond

19 The Rectangles divided into two parts represents

A Entity set
B Relationship set
C Attributes of a relationship set
D Primary key

20 Weak entity set is represented as

A Underline
B Double line
C Double diamond
D Double rectangle

21 What term is used to refer to a specific record in your music database; for instance;

information stored about a specific album?

A Relation
B Instance
C Table
D Column

22 Which two requirements are given priority during Requirement Management of a

product ?
A User and Developer
B Functional and Non-functional
C Enduring and Volatile
D All of the mentioned

23 If every requirement stated in the Software Requirement Specification(SRS) has only one

interpretation, SRS is said to be _____?

A Correct
B Unambiguous
C Verifiable
D Consistent

24. Everyone on the software team should be involved in the planning activity so that we can

_____?
A Analyze requirements in depth
B Reduce the granularity of the plan
C Get all team members to "sign up" to the plan
D Begin design

25. Which of the following is not included in SRS?

A Performance
B  Functionality
C Design solutions
D External Interfaces

UNIT - 3
1 Which of the following does not relate to Evolutionary Process Model?
A
Incremental Model

B
Concurrent Development Model

C
WINWIN Spiral Model

D
All of the above

2  A ________ view shows the system hardware and how software components are

distributed across the processors in the system.

A physical
B  logical
C process
D all of the mentioned

3. The UML was designed for describing _________

A object-oriented systems
B architectural design
C SRS
D Both object-oriented systems and Architectural design

4. Which of the following is an architectural conflict?

A Using large-grain components improves performance but reduces maintainability
B Introducing redundant data improves availability but makes security more difficult
C Localizing safety-related features usually means more communication so degraded

performance
D All of the mentioned

5 Java packages and Fortran subroutine are examples of__________

A Functions
B Modules
C Classes
D Sub procedures

6 _______________ is a measure of the degree of interdependence between modules.

A Cohesion
B Coupling
C None of the mentioned
D All of the mentioned

7 Which of the following is the best type of module coupling?

A Control Coupling
B Stamp Coupling
C Data Coupling
D Content Coupling

8 What does Coupling mean?

A  Coupling is the degree of connection between pair of module
B Coupling is the degree to which a module’s part are related to one another
C All of the mentioned
D None of the mentioned
9 Which of the following violates principle of least privilege?
A Modules that import packages
B Modules with unneeded access to files
C Classes with reference to Objects
D All of the mentioned

10 Which of the following is not an Advantage of modularization?

A Smaller components are easier to maintain
B Concurrent execution can be made possible
C Program cannot be divided based on functional aspects
D Desired level of abstraction can be brought in the program

11 Which tool is use for structured designing ?

A Program Chart
B Structure chart
C Module Chart
D All of the above

12. Which of the following is the worst type of module coupling?

A Control Coupling
B Stamp Coupling
C External Coupling
D Content Coupling

13 Choose the option that does not define Function Oriented Software

Design.
A It consists of module definitions
B Modules represent data abstraction
C Modules support functional abstraction
D None of the above

14 Which tool is use for structured designing ?

A Program flowchart
B Structure chart
C Data-flow diagram
D Module

15 Which of these does not represent object oriented design?

A It follows regular procedural decomposition in favor of class and object decomposition
B Programs are thought of collection of objects
C Central model represents class diagrams that show the classes comprising a program
 and their relationships to one another
D Object-oriented methods incorporates Structural methods

16 What encapsulates both data and data manipulation functions ?

A Object
B Class
C Super Class
D Sub Class

17 Which of the following points related to Object-oriented development (OOD) is true?

A OOA is concerned with developing an object model of the application domain
B OOD is concerned with developing an object-oriented system model to implement

requirements
C All of the mentioned
D None of the mentioned

18 Which of the following is a disadvantage of OOD ?

A Easier maintenance
B Objects may be understood as stand-alone entities
C Objects are potentially reusable components
D None of the mentioned

19 Which of the following describes”Is-a-Relationship” ?

A Aggregation
B Inheritance
C Dependency
D All of the mentioned

20  Object that collects data on request rather than autonomously is known as

A Active Object
B Passive Object
C Multiple instance
D None of the mentioned

21  What is Cyclomatic complexity?

A Black box testing
B White box testing
C Yellow box testing
D Green box testing

22. Lower and upper limits are present in which chart?

A Run chart
B Bar chart
C Control chart
D None of the mentioned

23 White Box techniques are also classified as

A Design based testing
B Structural testing
C Error guessing technique
D None of the mentioned

24 Which of the following is/are White box technique?

A Statement Testing
B Decision Testing
C Condition Coverage
D All of the mentioned

25 What are the various Testing Levels?

A Unit Testing
B System Testing
C Integration Testing
D  All of the mentioned

UNIT - 4
1 Testing the end to end functionality of the system as a whole is defined as

_______________
A Unit Testing
B Functional Testing
C Stress Testing
D Load Testing

2 The output of the requirement analysis and the requirement specification is used as the

input for writing ____________

A User Acceptance Test Cases
B User Rejection Test Cases
C Product Rejection Test Cases
D Product Acceptance Test Cases

3  Independent testers are _____________ and identify different defects at the same time.
A Isolated
B Biased
C Unbiased
D Modular

4 In a reactive approach, the bulk of the test design work begins __________
A Before any software is made
B After some modules are completed
C After every module, testing is done
D After the software has been produced

5 What is Cyclomatic complexity?

A Black box testing
B White box testing
C  Yellow box testing
D Green box testing

6 What are the various Testing Levels?

A Unit Testing
B System Testing
C Integration Testing
D All of the mentioned

7 Alpha testing is done at

A  Developer’s end
B User’s end
C Developer’s & User’s end
D None of the mentioned

8  ------ is one of the reputed testing standards.

A
Microsoft

B
ISO

C
QAI

D
M Bridge awards
9 Who is responsible for acceptance testing?
A Software tester
B Designer
C Customer
D Developer

10 When acceptance test cases are prepared in v model?

A After system testing is done
B As soon as testing begins
C When user asks
D When user requirements are gathered

11 In which of the following techniques, experience of tester is beneficial?

A Error guessing
B Exploratory testing
C Both a and b
D None as there is no relationship between techniques applied and experience of a tester.

12 .______________ maintenance Changes made to the system to reduce the future system failure

chances.
A Preventive Maintenance
B Adaptive Maintenance
C Corrective Maintenance
D Perfective Maintenance

13 ___________managment is most important feature of spiral model.

A Requirement analysis
B Risk
C Quality
D Configuration

14 _________testing is the form of Alpha and Beta Testing

A Acceptance
B Integration
C System
D Unit

15 which testing is also known as Function testing

A Structural
B Behavior
C Regression
D None of these

16 Top-down approach is used for ___________.

A Development
B Identification of fault
C Validation
D Functional Testing
17 how many portions of Decision table
A Four
B Three
C Five
D Two

18 which diagram that helps in understanding and representing user requirements for a software

project using (UML) is

A Entity Relationship
B Development
C Data Flow
D User Case

19 The main aim of software engineering is

A Program
B Software
C Within budget
D Software within budget given schedule

20 validation during
A Process is checked
B Product is checked
C Developer performance is evaluated
D The customer check the product

21 . ……………… may take the form of pair programming or a technical lead reviewing designs and code.
A Informal review
B Walkthrough
C Inspection
D Technical review

22 Discussing, making decisions, evaluating alternatives and finding defects are the main purposes of

………….
A Informal review
B Walkthrough
C Inspection
D Technical review

23 Which of the following are type of code review?

A code inspection
B code walkthrough
C both
D None

24 Which of the following are some classical programming error?

A use of uninitialized variables
B jumps into loops
C Arrrary indices out of bound
D All of the above

25 ITG stands for------?

A
Integration Testing Group

B
Instantaneous Test Group

C
Independent Test Group

D
Individual Testing Group

UNIT - 5
1 Which of the following is not a type of maintenance?
A Adaptive Maintenance
B Preventive Maintenance
C Perfective Maintenance
D Performative Maintenance

2 The cost of maintenance is as high as _______ of the cost of entire software

process cycle.
A 0.61
B 0.63
C 0.67
D 0.71

3 In how many categories software Maintenance is classified?

A  2
B 3
C 4
D 5

4 What type of software testing is generally used in Software Maintenance?

A Regression Testing
B System Testing
C Black-box testing
D White-box testing

5 The process of obtaining desired software from the specifications in

hand.
A Re-engineering
B Forward Engineering
C Reconstructing
D Re-engineering

6 On the basis of functionality and intended software requirements software component repository

is referred by designers to search for the matching component?

A Requirement specification
B Specify components
C Search suitable components
D Incorporate components

7 In order to get re-engineered software which concept is used ?

A Apply forward engineering
B Perform
C Decide
D Re-structure program

8 Source code translation is a part of which re-engineering technique?

A Data re-engineering
B Refactoring
C Restructuring
D None of the mentioned

9 BPR stands for

A Business process re-engineering
B Business product re-engineering
C Business process requirements
D None of the mentioned

10 Which of these benefits can be achieved when software is restructured?

A Higher quality programs
B Reduced maintenance effort
C Software easier to test
D All of the mentioned

11 Which of the following is not a business goal of re-engineering ?

A Cost reduction
B Time reduction
C Maintainability
D None of the mentioned

12 Which of the following strategies means that the impact of the risk will be reduced?
A Avoidance strategies
B Minimization strategies
C Contingency plans
D All of the mentioned

13 Which of the following risks are derived from the software or hardware technologies

that are used to develop the system?

A Managerial risks
B Technology risks
C Estimation risks
D Organizational risks

14 What assess the risk and your plans for risk mitigation and revise these when you learn

more about the risk?

A Risk monitoring
B Risk planning
C Risk analysis
D Risk identification

15 Which of the following term is best defined by the statement: “The underlying
technology on which the system is built is superseded by new technology.”?
A Technology change
B Product competition
C Requirements change
D None of the mentioned

16 _____is the associated with the Product Risk.

A Test object
B non-availability of the test environment
C Negative consequences
D Control of test item

17 ______is the Risk management most important jobs.

A Project manager
B Production team
C Investor
D Client

18 _____model is used to Project risk factor.

A Prototyping model
B Waterfall model
C Spiral model
D None of these

19 RE indicates_____.
A Risk exposure
B Related expense
C Risk expense
D Risk evaluation

20 one of the following is Risk?

A The negative consequence that must occur
B The negative consequence that will occur
C The negative consequence that could occur
D The negative consequence that shall occur

21 What complements the formal technical review by assessing a configuration object for

characteristics that are generally not considered during review?

A Software configuration audit
B Software configuration management
C Baseline
D None of the mentioned

22 Which of the following process is concerned with analyzing the costs and benefits of

proposed changes?
A Change management
B  Version management
C System building
D Release management

23 Which of the following is not a Version management feature?

A Version and release identification
B Build script generation
C Project support
D Change history recording

24 Quality also can be looked at in terms of user satisfaction which includes

A A compliant product
B Good quality output
C Delivery within budget and schedule
D All of the mentioned
25  According to ISO 9001, inspection and testing comes under which management

responsibility?
A Process control
B Document control
C Control of nonconforming products
D Servicing